Posted on 04/29/2015 3:43:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Republicans controlling Congress Wednesday unveiled a budget plan for the upcoming year and beyond, setting up a confrontation with President Barack Obama over his signature health care law and his vow to boost spending on domestic programs like transportation and education.
House-Senate negotiators on the sweeping — but nonbinding — budget plan sealed agreement Wednesday. The 10-year balanced budget plan calls upon lawmakers to repeal Obama's health care law while enacting major curbs on safety net programs like Medicaid and food stamps. It would cut future-year budgets for domestic agencies below already tight spending "caps" that the White House vows to dismantle.
The broader 10-year budget plan promised to cut federal spending projected at almost $50 trillion over the coming decade by more than $5 trillion, with the bulk of the cuts coming from federal health care programs. The measure would pave the way to finally deliver a bill to repeal "Obamacare" to the president's desk under special budget rules.
Republicans plan to use the special filibuster-proof bill to wage an assault on Obama's Affordable Care Act.
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“Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States.” —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
That’s so 19th Century, so...cute
Next, you’ll be expecting D.C. to follow the Constitution.
I’ve been cringing anytime someone brings up a ‘balanced budget amendment’; as if that wouldn’t mean ‘jack up the bill and then whine “Now we have to PAY for it”’
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